A brewery in Virginia is the subject of a legal tussle now before a jury in U.S. District Court in Denver between Coors Brewing Co., the owner, and an engineering and construction giant that built the facility.

Golden-based Coors contracted with Jacobs Engineering Group and Jacobs Construction Services to plan, engineer and build the 7-million-barrel-per-year brewery in Virginia’s Shenendoah Valley.

In 2008, not long after the cutting-edge facility began churning out suds, Coors filed suit, claiming that the engineering group underestimated the cost of the project by $110 million.

“The total installed cost of the project exceeded $333 million, which was $110 million more than what JEG represented to Coors, with 100 percent confidence, would be the maximum total installed cost,” the suit said.

A general assignment reporter for The Denver Post, Tom McGhee has covered business, police, courts, higher education and breaking news. He came to The Post from Albuquerque, N.M., where he worked for a year and a half covering utilities. He began his journalism career in New York City, worked for a pair of community weeklies that covered the west side of Manhattan from 14th Street to 125th Street.

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